Ludob and I have written an open source command line tool that downloads current FPC & Lazarus from SVN, compiles and installs it - separate from existing installs (snapshots, release builds, other SVNs).It succesfully updates my FPC/Lazarus install.

When I tried to create a repository on https://bitbucket.org, the "select box language" dont show Pascal or Object Pascal.... just Delphi. Immediately, I send message to the forum requesting the inclusion of object pascal ... I think more folks would require... Delhi is a IDE.... Object Pascal is the language!

Thanks to Mattias Gaertner on the Lazarus mailing lists, I've finished bare metal install functionality. You should be able to download fpcup.exe on a plain windows machine, and it will download a Subversion client, bootstrap compiler, and binutils (make.exe, gdb.exe etc).Then it will download FPC & Lazarus sources from SVN, compile and install them.

Next step: world dominance through support of Linux/OSX and getting offline help working out of the box.

Updated Linux binaries to recent repository version as that fixed some bugs causing Lazarus compilation to fail.

Thanks to Arny the TurboRascal for the bug report and ludob for the actual hard work

If you used a previous Linux binary and had problems, please download the latest one and try again. Sorry for the inconvenience.

Note that the new version has a confirmation prompt that allows you to review your options before continuing...

Now working on some issues with Windows and OSX versions... Seems fpcup won't compile Lazarus using FPC 2.6 fixes on Windows, but does work with FPC trunk. On the other hand, it could be an fpc.cfg issue...